"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer."

"I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10^9, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator w…"

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"I am not concerned with whether a machine has feelings, but whether it can perform tasks that require intelligence."

"If it is accepted that real brains, as found in animals, and in particular in men, are a sort of machine it will follow that our digital computer suitably programmed, will behave like a brain..."